Commissioners allocate first $5Mfor $72M project

11:20 PM,
Dec. 12, 2013

Commissioner Steve Sandlin listens to a question during a past Rutherford County Commission.

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The Rutherford County Commission appropriated $5 million to design a new judicial building and seek property for the project's parking garage.

All but Commissioners Steve Sandlin and Jeff Jordan supported the plan to get started on a project that's estimated to cost $65 million for the building and $7 million for the parking garage.

Mayor Ernest Burgess hopes to have a new building in place for the fast-growing county by late 2017 on the east side of Maple Street a block north of the existing Judicial Building on the Public Square. ...